Do you have a household budget? Everyone needs to have a budget. From experience, budgeting allows freedom. When you tell your money where to go, I’ve found that I actually have more money. Instead of wasting money on daily insignificant wants, I can afford my goals of bigger wants! The Bible also discusses the need for having a budget. Let’s take a look at Christian Budgeting. Here are several Bible Verses about Budgeting!
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise; who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
Proverbs 24:3-4
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms shall be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 25:28
He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man sees evil and hides himself, the naive proceed and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 27:23
Know well the face of your flocks; and pay attention to your herds.
Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it; lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.